Evelyn Saavedra Autry – “Insurgent Memories of Armed Struggle: Self-Representation by Female Ex-combatants in Peru” (Vol. 24, No. 1)

Dr. Evelyn Saavedra Autry is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers University. In her current book project, Race, Gender, and Violence in Narratives of the Andes: Archives of Coloniality and Indigenous Resurgence, Saavedra Autry constructs a genealogy of gender-based violence that offers an in-depth examination of the colonial mechanisms behind the objectification of Indigenous women and remaps the ways in which they have stood up to racialized and sexualized epistemic violence. Her research can be found in the journals Meridians, Feminist Formations, and the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her paper “Singing Feminist Ch’ixi+Art Music from las Rajaduras: Renata Flores, Isqun, and the Fractured Locus” was awarded the 2023 Feminist Formations and National Women’s Studies Association Paper Award.

Laura Barberán Reinares is a professor of English and literature at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She has published extensively on human rights and gender issues. Her book, Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño (2015), explores literary representations of sex trafficking. She is affiliated with the Human Rights Hub within the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is a former Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Faculty Research Fellow (CUNY GC). In 2025, she received the CUNY BCC President’s Award for Excellence in Research.

Eunah Lee is an assistant professor of philosophy at St. Joseph’s University, New York. She was the first recipient of the Transnational Justice Interdisciplinary Workshop Grants at Marquette University in 2015, from which she wrote “Reflections on the Symposium at Marquette University: Integrity of Memory: ‘Comfort Women’ in Focus” (2015). Her publications include “Narrative of Traumatic Memory in Spirits’ Homecoming (2016) and Tuning Fork (2014)” in the British journal Asian Cinema (2024) and “Love and Horror: In Bong Joon-Ho’s Mother and Lee Chang-Dong’s Poetry,” a book chapter in Philosophy, Film, and The Dark Side of Interdependence (2020). Her current research focuses on two strands. First, she works on the ethics of memory and representation in the context of sexual slavery during World War II. Second, she publishes articles analyzing the racial issues in modern Western philosophy, especially in Kantian political philosophy.

About Paula J. Giddings

Ida was deemed one of the best books of 2008 by the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, and earned the first inaugural John Hope Franklin Research Center Book Award presented by the Duke University Libraries. The book also won the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award from the Association of Black Women Historians and the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavas Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights.

Giddings is a former book editor and journalist who has written extensively on international and national issues and has been published by the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Jeune Afrique (Paris), The Nation, and Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women, among other publications. She is also the editor of Burning All Illusions, an anthology of articles on race published by The Nation magazine from 1867 to 2000.